To the west the town borders the city of Rensselaer from the North Greenbush line to southern tip of the city, then East Greenbush's border is with Albany County town of Bethlehem, the border being in the middle of the Hudson River.
By 1927, when The Atlantic Monthly published his short story Fifty Grand, Hemingway's first two books -- the collection of stories In Our Time (1925) and the novel The Sun Also Rises (1926) -- had already established the twenty-eight-year-old author as a rising literary star on the expatriate scene in Paris.
Ernest Hemingwayâs âThe Sun Also Risesâ was almost called something else. Early title contenders were âFiesta: A Novelâ (as the book was subsequently known in England), âTwo Lie Together,â and even âFor in much wisdom is much grief and he that increases knowledge increases sorrowââa line that, like the winning candidate, comes from Ecclesiastes, and